Norma's Notables

Equity

• Learning from One Another: Lessons in (Educational) Excellence | Dr. Betina Hsieh | TEDxCSULB

• Mathematics in Context: The Pedagogy of Liberation

• https://equitablemath.org/

• Why SEL Alone Isn't Enough

• Deborah Loewenberg Ball

Lesson Activities

• More puzzles and games added to my DESMOS puzzles and games collection

• Lesson close slides

• Group quiz (or work) jamboard template

• Interactive Genius Squares Game

• Theresa Wills games

• Fraction Pipe Flow

• Canvas Mastery Paths

• Three Ways to Play NIM on a Jamboard

Sites and Tools - re-entry in person ideas?

• Curated (but TX aligned) DESMOS resources - cool interactive reference guides

• new Mathigon Elementary webinar recording MS recording

• Alicia Burdess - thinking classroom tasks galore!

• Problem Solving Websites (tasks)

• Goal-free problems - rather than pose a specific prompt these ask students to "work out what you can from the given information." or "What can you work out using this information?"

• Beautiful Symmetry A Colouring Book about Math

Equity

• Lou Matthews video series

• NCTM book - Rehumanizing Mathematics for Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Students. 🌟👀 Intro chapter 4/30/21 early release PD session

Lesson Activities look for 📧 updates in the collaboration docs

Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8

• Desmos by grade/course from the amazing Kurt Salisbury

• Quadrilaterals DESMOS Toolkit

• Open Middle % increase

• Coin Counting 3-ACT task

• Open Middle/Equations (gr 7-8) visual feedback (👀)

How close to Zero and Two-Step Equations

• Mario Point Maze (coordinate grid - fun!)

• Pyramid Puzzles

• GameStop: A Play in Two Acts

• Charging Batteries fractions, decimals, % DESMOS + Menu Math (dream combo!)

• Integer Solitaire!

Sites and Tools

• Puzzles from M+A+T+H = love blog

• Mathigon 02/05 demo/PD recording

Equity

• Making Mathematics Teaching Work: Positioning its Power to Disrupt White Supremacy, Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball. I will offer a Friday PD collab time for those interested in unpacking.

• How to Make Anti-Racism More Than a Performance

Lesson Activities

• Number Talk DESMOS templates

• Fraction Simulations

• Three Ways to Play NIM on a Jamboard

Sites and Tools

• Mathigon Tutorials and Lesson Plans (see note about 2/5 PD)

• Interactive tape measure DESMOS style

General

• "The Mathematics of Opportunity: Advancing Social Justice Through Math Education" - free virtual conference

• The Ridiculousness Of Learning Loss - what is "lost"?

• Opinion | What Covid-19 Revealed About Schools and Education - Make Schools More Human.

• The Disruptor's series - actions to change mindsets.

• Antiracism Resources by content areas (also added to the Equity & SEL in MATH page).

Lesson Activities also check your 📧 for ongoing updates in the collaboration docs!

• Joel Bezaire DESMOS-ifying Math Forum Problems.

• Three Numbers Puzzle see more in my Games & Puzzles collection.

• Visual Patterns Modeling activity see more in my Visual Patterns collection.

• I'm a fan of Randall Munroe's What If book. He has great exploratory questions (NYTimes) series - for example "Will My Popcorn Explode? "The odds that all of your popcorn kernels will pop simultaneously aren’t zero. Maybe think instead of the multiple lotteries you’re more likely to win."

• Equations "Super Secret Spy Missions".

• 🌟 Four representations of Linear Functions in Context including a template to add your own!

• Exponents activities from Kurt Salisbury intro and practice.

Sites and Tools

• Desmos CL - screens for student choice to use a sketch or a table and screencast showing how to use it, and how I used it in this activity

• 🌟 🆕 Desmos CL resources page on this site - work in progress!

• Mathigon Tutorials and Lesson Plans

• Interactive tape measure DESMOS style

Mathematics for Social Justice

• Parable of the Polygons simulation

• Gapminder.org tools

• An antiracist podcast playlist

General

• Fun graphics - weirdest/best charts from 2020

• Math/Art fashion design article and lesson

• National Math Festival events - free! Next week Math Rap double feature!

Lesson Activities

• 2021 number challenge (double screen) (single screen)

• Grade 6 Ratios Rates Proportion pixel art

• Grade 6 Percent Word Problems pixel art

• Grade 8 formative self-assessment equations

• Zapper DESMOS battleship

• Exponents Breakout Room Desmos competition

• Sports Analytics

• Moving Day Puzzle

• Thematic Units

• Math/ELA Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night

• Sieve of Eratosthenes

Sites and Tools

• Mathshko

• naoki inaba puzzles

• Mathigon Polypad new probability tools

• 🔄 customisable spinners and 🎲 non-transitive dice!

• Mathematics and animation - great to watch AND share with students!

  • Painting a girl taking a selfie

  • DESMOS "animators" - behind the scenes creating Desmos activities

• DESMOS news

  • Cool how's your weather starter

  • 5X5 game activity

  • Equations Among Us 6/7 version (no slope)

  • Math portfolio DESMOS idea

  • GRADE 8/HS function - soda machine

• Reminder for good sites

  • https://solveme.edc.org/ Not just for the mobile puzzles!

• Pixel Art - have you tried these?

  • Best source is the Facebook groups for example Pixel Art Mysteries in Education and Math/Science Group

• Need a template templates for backgrounds (Jamboards, Google Slides, DESMOS) try MathsBot

6-7-8+

• non-math polygraphs

• collections of games (DESMOS) - including making snowflakes!

• Collection of MARS activities on DESMOS

• template multiple choice self-checking DESMOS (would need editing)

• most misunderstood math standards

• What I am reading, https://buildingthinkingclassrooms.com/

Let's Play!

• Got It!

• Tantalizing Triangles

• Play with your Math

Resharing

• Mashup Jamboard for community circles and student room choice

• Template galore!

  • Theresa Wills

  • Mrs. Park

Virtual Math Resources (from K-5 curriculum)

• Games and Tools

DESMOS - next week several updates being released!

Interesting resources

• Looking for additional warm up tasks? Starting Points Math - is a newer resource I have found.

• Great starter prompts/check in questions - such as "Cereal is Soup. Prove me wrong!"

• It's not too late to sign up for Making Math Moments that Matters Summit this weekend recordings will be available you don't have to watch live.

• Thanksgiving plate DESMOS (coordinates).

• Every Thursday #DESMOS live (also recorded) new releases.

• For students, family, friends! Interactive card games/multi-player https://playingcards.io/

Great Back Up planning ideas

• Great twitter thread list of games - SET et al.

• Mathigon is now creating polypad lessons; (also check out Factris (factor tetris! - also an IOS free app)

• Some great basic number sense games (range or grade levels)

Re-share/posting about virtual engagement.

• Really love the assigned breakout room roll by arrival.

New release DESMOS Tortoise and the Hare Check out all the languages!

Upcoming meetings

• Nov 3 district PD day

  • 8:30 Grade 6 9:00 Grade 7 9:30 Grade 8

• Nov 17 6-8 math department

Key Finds - sorry not more organized - but also not a long email!

Get students talking with these #MathFails images

Get students making with 52 weeks of Hands On Math

Grade 6 organized resources (not from PSB) also this growing grade 6 OUR DESMOS collection

Grade 7 growing DESMOS-IFIED collection of the the paper lessons

Grade 8 Unit 1 paper lesson Moving Day modified digital

Copy of the coordinate grid welcome google slides activity

"Badges" images for students that correspond to the units (based on OpenUp) - linked in each grade level shared folder

Grade 8 Grade 7 Grade 6